SidiousL

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by SidiousL 8y ago
The actual principle behind the C type declarations is "declaration follows use". Let me explain what this means. Take this declaration int *pi; Means that when I dereference the variable pi, I get an int. This also exp
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by SidiousL 8y ago
You can compute this integral as follows. First, you remember that sinc(x) = sin(x)/x is the Fourier transform of 1/2 * indicator function of [-1, 1]. In general you have: sinc(x/n) = n/2 \int_{-1/n}^{1/n
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by SidiousL 8y ago
I didn't read the article but, in case you don't know quantum mechanics, I should tell you that the vast majority of people who study such things think that Bohm's theory is plain wrong. I should also say that it is not taugh
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by SidiousL 8y ago
I tried to find an example that contradicts what you said, but I can't find any. Here's an online example which can be compiled as both C and C++ and I obtain exactly the same assembly using both clang and gcc. Maybe somebody ca
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by SidiousL 8y ago
No, she most certainly did not discover the DNA. The DNA (which was not named like that) had been around since Friedrich Miescher's work in the 19th century. Your statement is at least[#] as ignorant as saying that J.J. Thompson dis
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by SidiousL 8y ago
I see they are adding an analog of the C++ iostreams, but I don't see a discussion of how to disambiguate between `sin' as in stream-in and `sin' as in the mathematical function. Really, they should introduce some kind of mod
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by SidiousL 9y ago
I don't know if you're going to see this, but I feel the need to defend myself. Sorry about going on a tangent here, but I have no other way of doing this. Here's what happened. Somebody posted a link to a PhD thesis in mat
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by SidiousL 9y ago
> the fact that many sexist anti-STEM cues are given to children at a much earlier stage, way before careers are even on the horizon It doesn't look like you read the article. It clearly stated that in countries like Finland and Sw
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by SidiousL 9y ago
Your intuition is correct and the question of the speed of gravitational waves is pretty complicated. The usual treatment of gravitational waves is done by linearization of some non-linear equations. This is a very good approximation for
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by SidiousL 9y ago
I read this book and it is very interesting. Another book with a similar title and a common co-author is the famous SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs). This book on classical mechanics is unique from several points o
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by SidiousL 9y ago
Please, please, please, don't take MathML away from us. Even though we are few in number, we want to be able to put mathematics on the Web. I'm sad Chrome and IE chose not to implement support for MathML.
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by SidiousL 9y ago
It's funny how some companies now literally enforce a "don't ask don't tell" policy when it comes to some points of view. In the academia it is probably even worse than in the industry. Except this time, it's
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by SidiousL 9y ago
If you find a rational person willing to defend any of the points you made, then yes, it is wrong to be against that discussion.
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by SidiousL 9y ago
I think using "deeply buried in identity politics" is overstating facts. And I'm sure you can find many people in academia and otherwise who will clearly identify as Marxists and who advance the points of view that he was ag
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by SidiousL 9y ago
I think it might be a bit more than that. As far as I can see, all the primitive data types in Rust have sizes which are multiples of eight. However, there are still architectures out there with 9 bit bytes, or 36-bit words. Maybe it&#x2
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by SidiousL 9y ago
I haven't heard of any instance where the Duma disagreed with any of Putin's ideas. I don't think the Duma is providing any checks and balances to the power that Putin has.
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by SidiousL 9y ago
If white men aren't responsible, then who is? Maybe she is responsible for her own failures. What a radical idea is that? Who hurt you, buddy? Please, I'm not your buddy. you can still be taking up unwarr
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by SidiousL 9y ago
What's the damage? The damage is that racism is evil irrespective of who the racist is (and yes, black people can be racist too, as any reputable dictionary should be able to prove to you). And every instance of it should be denounce
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by SidiousL 9y ago
No, because Jews aren't an overwhelming majority of people taking up space in universities. I think you'll find that they are overrepresented. How did that come about? And to turn your question back at you: if jews are
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by SidiousL 9y ago
Did you read the post? Yes. Remember, I linked to it. And, as painful as it was, I did read the whole thing. White men, on the other hand, have the power to not hire her, to fire her, and so forth. So the implication is
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by SidiousL 9y ago
And by the way, this commentary that you quoted is by Adriana Salerno, not by the original author. This commentary appeared after the negative reaction to the blog post; the initial version of the blog post did not contain it. I think by
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by SidiousL 9y ago
I don't think I was cynical at all. I just took the most straightforward literal interpretation of what she wrote. And I think she really meant it since otherwise she would have apologized for any misunderstanding by now. About he id
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by SidiousL 9y ago
In what way is my summary terrible? I stand by it and I have the facts to back it up. When somebody says: > If you are a white cis man (meaning you identify as male and you were assigned male at birth) you almost certainly should resig
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by SidiousL 10y ago
This is not standard C++, is it? private: System::Windows::Forms::TextBox^ txtDisplay; Should "^" be "*" instead?